Our daily trip around the world

🇮🇱 Israel will hold its fifth election in four years today. Unlike US elections, Israelis vote for a party, not an individual candidate. And preliminary polls show the front-running blocs, led by incumbent Prime Minister Yair Lapid and former PM Benjamin Netanyahu, locked in a dead heat, with neither projected to win an outright majority. Though even if one side narrowly wins, they'll have to form a coalition – and the resulting government would be fragile and unstable since every lawmaker in the ruling coalition would have strong leverage to make demands, per the WSJ. Israel’s previous ruling coalition collapsed after less than a year under similar circumstances.

🇨🇳 Visitors to Disney's Resort in Shanghai, China, are now trapped inside until testing negative for Covid. Chinese officials announced yesterday morning that all people are barred from entering or exiting the park without a negative test result. The move is part of China’s zero-Covid strategy, which entails completely locking down any areas with positive tests. An estimated 232 million Chinese residents are currently under lockdown – equivalent to about 1 in every 35 people in the world.

🇨🇭 The longest passenger train in history traveled through the Swiss Alps over the weekend. The 1.2-mile-long train, conducted by Rhaetian Railway, comprised 100 carriages carrying 150 total passengers. Rhaetian CEO Dr Renato Fasciati said the voyage was intended to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Swiss railways and draw attention to the train’s scenic route (☝️), which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008.